It’s time we took the misuse of deepfake technology to target individuals seriously and looks like the US Congress is. After Taylor Swift became a victim of deepfake pornography and her search results on X were polluted with explicit nude deepfake images of the singer, a bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill that would criminalise the spread of nonconsensual, sexualised images generated by artificial intelligence.
A new law called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act is being proposed by US senators from both political parties. The law would make it illegal to share nonconsensual, sexualised images created by artificial intelligence without the subject's permission. This new law comes after the artificial intelligence-generated explicit pictures of Taylor Swift flooded the internet, especially X (formerly Twitter).